trash talking

[snugglekitty]

A poll for your Friday.



[Poll #1062709]

Comments

[goat.livejournal.com]

One bag of trash per week - I'd really like to get that lower. My plan is to eventually do worm composting, but I don't like the DIY plans I've seen, and the composters you can buy are kind of expensive.

[hanseth.livejournal.com]

I've trashpicked on occasion. Usually it's less "pull crap out of dumpsters" and more "what's THAT on the side of the road?"

Of course, the latter is actually encouraged here -- there's bulky trash pickup several times a year, and people will haul their stuff out to the curb a few days before, in hopes that opportunistic neighbors will take it first.

Loving the title... dunno when you changed dit, but YES MF _ PRINCESS!

[gurl1776.livejournal.com]

I'll trash pick if I can bleach it down and make things spic and span. I have 4 "free" bikes and a child's bike - all from generous neighbors.

Love living near wealthy folks... they throw out the best stuff that ain't hardly been used...

Your poll makes me scratch and wonder... where does our trash go?

Re: Loving the title... dunno when you changed dit, but YES MF _ PRINCESS!

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like the title. I got it from a song by a pop princess that I mostly don't like - but I am so the motherfuckin' princess, as I think anyone who knew me would agree.

After writing this poll, I sent an email to my city's Public Works department (which you can do, now, at least in some places) asking them where they put the trash. We'll see if they get back to me.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

We composted until recently. We're moving next year and have been advised by People Who Know to move our compost location before trying to sell the house, so we're letting it do its thing and will use it in the flowerbeds and whatnot next spring.

[pink-pet.livejournal.com]

When I lived alone I'd generate a bag of trash every other week. And the bag was the size of a plastic supermarket shopping bag (which was what I used, reusing the plastic bags so I didn't have to buy trash bags).

Since my partner moved in and our other partner is there about once a week or so, we generate a big, full 30 quart bag a week, or more. It's a bit depressing.

And we don't compost--we usually eat the whole pizza...

...and there's no waste from the preparation cause it was delivered : )

(Hmmm, maybe that is not the most sensitive way to prepare food...)

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I'm including wastebaskets in the "trash cans" count, since a later question asked about liners and included "trash cans" not in the kitchen. There's a wastebasket in every room except the dining room, and Ilana's room has two (in my effort to get her to use them). But we only have one of what I consider a trash can, and that's in the kitchen. Well, and there are two outside for the garbage pickup, but I didn't think you were including those.

I generally use the word "garbage" except for "trash bags" and "trash picking."

Okay, now I've used the word "trash" so many times it has lost all meaning.

No liner = icky!

Interesting!

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

How would you differentiate between trash can and wastebasket? I use them interchangeably, myself.

Re: Interesting!

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I think of trash cans as fairly large containers (like, "tall kitchen bag" size at least), made of plastic, with lids that shut, into which wet or potentially stinky things may go. They often have a step-lever to open the lid. They are usually neutral colors like white or black, but occasionally may be funky and red or blue, but they're made for kitchens.

Wastebaskets are small (I use plastic grocery bags for liners), have no lids (or have the swinging-open kind), and can be made of things like wicker which are harder to clean, and do not generally receive wet or stinky things except in small quantities (e.g. a used condom or an apple core). These may be more decorative and can come in lots of different colors.

Assumptions are funny - It didn't occur to me that anyone else saw these things any other way!!

hrm

[cyclothemia.livejournal.com]

I don't trash pick, per se, but if something I can use is not buried in sticky or moldy things, I will take a look.

easy comparison

[trouble4hire.livejournal.com]

Our downstairs neighbors regularly put out two to three times as much trash we do. And they have much more recyling. It seems they drink a lot of beer and eat more prepackaged food.

Trashy Thoughts...

[artemis44.livejournal.com]

liners - kitchen and bathroom trash
no liners - office and bedroom trash

My reasoning - the office and bedroom ones were bought for their slightly "nice" look, which would be ruined by plastic bags stuffed inside and over the edges... might as well hang a bag on the doorknob like in olden (college) days. That said, putting them up on the tv/other furniture to keep them from the drunken midget we have living with us (toddler), well, that ain't the aesthetic I was going for either...

bathroom trash MUST have a liner, as it often has *bodily fluids* and other products in it, as I am very well-trained to be kind to older plumbing...

And while I don't actively trash pick, we did get a set of chairs off the side of the road when we really needed them a few years back. And then, while we were sitting there waiting for our friend to come help us carry them back, their owner came out and it turned out to be an old friend of C's! LOL! They are great, and now reupholstered by us and in the kitchen... :) I'd also get outside kid toys that way, if we came across something cool or other "big and not likely contaminated by ick" sort of stuff...

At school, they had the free bins, which almost completely dressed most of my friends, with tons of great stuff that the wealthier girls would just toss out to make room in their dorms! They were GREAT!

[iff]

Liners/bags in the kitchen and bathrooms because the stuff that gets tossed in is frequently wet and will stick to the can if it goes directly in, which means I'd have to touch it to get it out and...ewwww! No liners in the other rooms because pretty much everything that gets tossed in them is dry (tissues, shrink wrap from DVDs, dryer lint, etc.). All of the stuff in the other cans slides out in to the big bag that goes out to the curb without me having to touch it. And the big bag is usually the 1/3 full kitchen bag that only goes out weekly because it tends to start stinking.

I don't trash pick, mostly because the stuff that there is around here to trash pick is usually the leavings of someone's apartment eviction and the people who toss it to the curb are never gentle. Plus, at this point, I've got so much STUFF in the house that I don't need anything else to bring in.

Composting...given how anal and obnoxious the HOA is, they'd probably flip if I put a composting bin out back. "That's against the rules that we just made up and didn't tell you about! You must remove it immediately or we will fine your ass because we like picking on you!" My next place will NOT have a HOA and I will definitely compost then.